Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
MATTHEW ARNOLDTime may restore us in his course Goethe’s sage mind and Byron’s force: But where will Europe’s latter hour Again find Wordsworth’s healing power?
More Matthew Arnold Quotes
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is.
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It is a very great thing to be able to think as you like; but, after all, an important question remains: what you think.
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Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
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Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man.
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If one were searching for the best means to efface and kill in a whole nation the discipline of self-respect, the feeling for what is elevated, he could do no better than take the American newspapers.
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The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.
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All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.
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Style … is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.
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Once read thy own breast right, And thou hast done with fears.
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The grand stye arises in poetry, when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject.
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Ah! two desires toss about The poet’s feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion.
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This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
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